Day: 25 April 2020

Lockdown zealots like Piers Morgan and Carole Cadwalladr have exploded with delight at the Guardian's story that Dominic Cummings attended the Secret Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) on March 23rd, the day Boris Johnson announced the lockdown. "This may turn out to be the biggest scandal of the crisis," tweeted Piers, while Carole declared it "unfuckingbelievable". Ooh, mother! So are they – and the Guardian – suggesting the decision to impose a lockdown was, in part, a political one and not just based on the wise counsel of the Government's scientific advisors? That the Machiavellian Brexit mastermind had to infiltrate SAGE to browbeat the boffins into advising Boris to do what he judged to be in Boris's best interests, not the country's? Does this mean they've all done a reverse ferret and joined the ranks of lockdown sceptics? Not sure how the Guardian's scoop will sit with its columnists, who until now have tried to out-bid each other in their enthusiasm for the lockdown – "No I care about the NHS more." "No I do." "No I do." Hitherto, the Guardian's main criticism of Boris is that he didn't place the British people under house arrest even sooner. Now, apparently, the lockdown is just a piece of political theatre staged by Dominic Cummings. The statement from No 10 rebutting the story, ...

David Crowe, a Canadian independent researcher of infectious disease models and the host of a weekly radio show in Canada called The Infectious Myth, has analysed 33 of the PCR tests approved by the Food and Drug Administration and concluded they all have serious limitations, producing both false positives and false negatives.